Welcome English Teachers of Harrison High School!

This wiki was established to promote collaboration within the English department at Harrison High School. Browse the links on the right-hand side of the screen to see what others teachers have to share.

If you have something to share (and everyone does), request membership to this wiki so you are able to edit various pages.

Here are some ideas for things to add:

Lesson Plans
- For a day, for a Week, for an entire Unit-- anything you found to be successful with your students

Classroom Management Strategies and/or documents
- Anything from classroom policies and syllbuses to forms you use with students

Assessment Ideas, Rubrics
- How do you grade Independent Reading?
- What tools do you use to judge student writing?
- Do you give Extra Credit? (And if you do, how do you manage this?)
- How do you grade homework, if at all?

Worksheets, Study Guides and other Documents used while teaching specific texts
- Upload files to the Wiki that colleagues could use in their classrooms

Reading Schedules for specific texts
- How long to you take to teach a novel?
- How many days do you give students to read a novel out of class?

Classroom Activities, and how to structure them
- What activities do you use that you feel make the students really think

General Collaboration of instructional strategies you have used and found successful